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==Physical Memory Allocators==
 
These are the algorithms that will provide you a new page frame when you'll need it. The client of this algorithm is usually indifferent to which frame is returned, and especially, a request for n frames needn't to return contiguous frames (unless you are allocating memory for DMA operations like network packet buffers).
 
N will be the size of the memory in pages in the following text.